Virginia Winder/NZ House & Garden05:00, Jul 19 2021
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Taranaki family gets hands-on with this Edwardian villa renovation.
When a couple with an eye for style got hold of a multi-storey Edwardian house with a colourful history, it went from unkempt to elegant.
Sylvia Howieson and Tony Young bought the New Plymouth house in 2008, put tenants in it and returned to London with their two young boys. With them, Tony took detailed plans of the house so he could mark up all the changes he wanted to make, ready for architectural sign-off and council consents.
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The rescued New Plymouth villa, and Sylvia with sons Fergus, 16, and Campbell, 14, leaning on a steel pot-belly balustrade that was made locally for the front verandah.